Replacing its ancestor, hexasalmundus uses a salt-based compound to build its cell walls in a three dimensional hexagon shape, allowing the cells to better fit together into colonies. However, the shape isn’t perfect, and although they do fit together, there are often gaps and misshapes involved. Like its ancestor, colony members that die fill up with waste from the other cells, although this process eventually poisons the colony as it grows, preventing wads of hexasalmundus from becoming very large. It lives mostly on the shores and lower portions of the lake, where the cells can adsorb nutrients from the surrounding water more easily, and also breaks down dead organic matter.
Living Relatives (click to show/hide)
These are randomly selected, and organized from lowest to highest shared taxon. (This may correspond to similarity more than actual relation)
